Spacewar! (was Re: Laser display...)

Eric Smith eric at brouhaha.com
Thu Feb 17 10:16:22 CST 2005


der Mouse wrote:
> I'd like to get hold of the code, and enough hardware docs to build an
> emulator - can you point me at such?

As usual, bitsavers.org.

Though there are already multiple PDP-1 simulators out there that can
run Spacewar, including Bob Supnik's SIMH, and another one in Java by
Brian Silverman.

> While it wouldn't be nearly as
> cool as the real thing, seeing at least an approximation to the real
> thing's display under something philosophically MAMEish (and perhaps
> even within the MAME framework) would be Pretty Cool,

Haven't the M.E.S.S. guys already done that?

Eric





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